Apr 08
- If you come home at o-dark-thirty and your wife says, “You’re home early.”…
- If you have a computer that’s over ten years old and you’re lamenting you can’t get RAM for it…
- If you can’t name all the layers of the OSI model but know which layer http is on…
- If you hate programmers (because you would’ve written it better)…
- If you’ve thought of killing someone for top posting…
- If you know of more than 2 IRC servers that are poorly configured…
- If EHLO makes perfect sense to you…
- If seeing SYNACKRST makes you twitch…
- If you’ve ever typed, “AFK. WMA.” into an IRC chat…
Ah the things I think about when moving.
Oh, and for those of you so inclined, meet the bumper dumper.
My favorite t-shirt image from the site:
April 10th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Dude, you’ll have to constantly have homicidal feelings for me, then, because I feel like killing people who do NOT top-post (if, by “top-post”, you mean insert the body of your reply at the top of an email). The only time I will include original text above the body of my reply is when I am quoting it to give it specific attention. I hate hate hate having to scroll to the very bottom of an email to find the response. A related pet-peeve concerns email clients that assume that you always want your signature to go at the bottom of an email, reply or otherwise. @#$%#$
April 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
To clarify, by top-post I mean that someone takes an email and without any thought posts to the top of the message. This is most egregious when associated with long email threads and “me too” relplies.
I prefer in-line replies.
For a good treatment of the topic, please see RFC 1855 and wikipedia.